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Electrical excitation of surface phonon-polaritons in III-V heterostructures: a Monte Carlo study

F. Mazzamuto 1 Jérôme Saint-Martin 1 A. Bournel 1 P. Dollfus 1 Alexandre Archambault 2 François Marquier 2 Jean-Jacques Greffet 2
1 IEF - Institut d'électronique fondamentale
2 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Naphel
LCFIO - Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique
Abstract : The surface phonon polaritons (SPP) excitation by hot electrons of an appropriate two-dimensional gas could make possible to implement an opto-electronic device emitting around 10 THz. To quantitatively assess the SPP emission by inter-subband electron relaxation in a GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well, accurate electron/SPP scattering rates have been included in a particle Multi-Subband Monte Carlo (MSMC) simulator. Our results suggest some possible optimizations to enhance the SPP emission in order to design new Tera-Hertz sources.
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F. Mazzamuto, Jérôme Saint-Martin, A. Bournel, P. Dollfus, Alexandre Archambault, et al.. Electrical excitation of surface phonon-polaritons in III-V heterostructures: a Monte Carlo study. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, IOP Publishing, 2009, 193 (1), pp.012015. ⟨hal-00574368⟩

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